Practice Analysis of Care, Paraclinical Exams and Treatments Received by Geriatric Patients Both During the Last Week and the Last 24 Hours of Their Lives.

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Collecting data from the medical record: Patient's socio-demographic data (age, gender, residence), comorbidities, cause of death, date and frequency of care measures/treatments/paraclinical exams received before their death.

Study summary

End-of-life care is a core topic for geriatricians. One of the key aspects of end-of-life management is deciding when to discontinue active care measures (for example blood pressure monitoring, blood tests and X-rays) in favor of exclusive comfort care. In this retrospective observational study, the investigators looked at the care measures, treatments and paraclinical exams received by geriatric patients both one week and 24 hours before their death.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Prevalence of care and treatments received during the last week of life, and during the last 24 hours of life — In the last week of life and 24 hours before death
  To measure the prevalence of care (hemodynamic, biological and radiological monitoring), and to evaluate the treatments received during the last week of life, and during the last 24 hours of life of patients hospitalized and who died in a geriatric short-stay ward.

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